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If we continue to think of bullying as primarily a schoolyard phenomenon, and overlook its seeding in the caustic repartee or controlling humor that dot our many different social dialogues, we will be blind to one of the ways in which our culture insidiously feeds intimidation and various plays of power.

If we continue to think of bullying as primarily a schoolyard phenomenon, and overlook its seeding in the caustic repartee or controlling humor that dot our many different social dialogues, we will be blind to one of the ways in which our culture insidiously feeds intimidation and various plays of power.

Father Time: Meditations, Musings, and Myths about Time

Portraits of the PatriarchyFather Time examines the progressive shift in modern fatherhoodPart 1Before the 1950’s sitcom Father Knows Best dispensed an idealized American family value each week to television audiences, the program originated on radio, where Father, actor Robert Young, was pretty rude to his kids. There was also a question mark at the end…

Father Time: Meditations, Musings, and Myths about Time

Gentlemen in TrainingThe Case for Manners for Today’s Young Men – Part 2Though I didn’t know it at the time, my first childhood best friend was also my first bully. We played well together for the most part, but as the years went on, his early crude but humorous behaviors eventually evolved into full-blown manipulation.…